FOURTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL
Welcome to MediaRights' fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. Our jury has chosen 16 short films on the burning topics of today: Corporate Accountability, Sustainable Agriculture, Civil Liberties, Youth Media and more. Choose your media player below, select a film to your right, and click on a link to take action on the causes you care about most. STREAM>CLICK>ACTION
I Promise Africa
2:40 minPublic Service Announcement
Winner of the Jury Award Sponsored by National Film Network
While making a documentary about orphans, a filmmaker preserves the voices of a generation that will soon be silenced.
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iThemba
5:19 minDocumentary Short
Winner of the Health Advocacy Award Sponsored by Sundance Channel
The Sinikithemba Choir turns stage into soapbox, singing and speaking for 5 million HIV+ South Africans.
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Seeds of Hope: South Africa
6:12 minInternational Documentary
Winner of the Environment Award
A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
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The Meatrix
3:47 minFlash Animation
Winner of the Film for Thought Award Sponsored by Heifer International
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland where quaint family farms produce food for our tables?
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Laugh at the Fat Kid
7:57 minNarrative Short
Winner of the Peter Yarrow Peace in Our Classrooms Award Sponsored by Frank Marshall
A young boy caught in a cycle of ridicule and overeating — what’s wrong with this picture?
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Lean on Me
1:46 minYouth Digital Story
Winner of the Youth Digital Story Award Sponsored by the Waitt Family Foundation
When the mayor’s office says “no,” a group of kids find a safe place to play basketball.
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Books Not Bars
3:44 minCampaign Portrait
Winner of the Criminal Justice Award Sponsored by Open Society Institute
The teens of the Books Not Bars movement demand that education be the government’s priority, now and in the future.
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The Children of Birmingham
6:17 minAnimation
Winner of the Youth Video Award Sponsored by Time Warner Foundation
Baltimore youth tell the story of their 1960s counterparts who fought for civil rights.
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Day of Remembrance
8:00 minPolitical Documentary
Winner of the Racial Justice Award
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed for Arab and Muslim Americans?
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Dedicated to My Family
3:51 minPersonal Documentary
Winner of the Family and Society Award
Living in a teen shelter, Nicole has learned that family is where the heart is.
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Struggling to Survive
7:37 minYouth Documentary
Winner of the Youth Documentary Award Sponsored by Time Warner Foundation
Teenagers in eastern Kentucky turn their cameras on the living wage crisis in their community.
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The Sixth Section
8:10 minSocial Documentary
Winner of the American Dream Award Sponsored by Netflix
During the cold winters of upstate New York, a group of immigrants work together to give back to their hometown of Boqueron, Mexico.
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Novela, Novela
7:20 minInternational Documentary
Winner of the Women’s Rights Award
A group of Nicaraguan activists produce a homegrown soap opera about issues like safe sex and domestic abuse.
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Bush for Peace
1:56 minSatirical Short
Winner of the Politics and Government Award
It’s Dubya as you’ve never heard him before in a re-mix of U.S. foreign policy.
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Spring in Awe
4:00 minExperimental Short
Winner of the Media Awareness Award Sponsored by AIVF
The overpowering displays of Times Square put a spell on the world in a disturbing lullaby of global capitalism.
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POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
8:24 minPortrait
Winner of the Media Literacy Award Sponsored by Paola Freccero
Ron English’s billboards force the man on the street to look twice…or maybe three times.
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